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Sat, 21 August 2010
posted by ao, 08/18/10  Delete Claire Cronin's Disquiet Objects, opening reception

 

Ezra Buchla and I will be performing Duet (for Tashi Wada) intermittently throughout the evening of Claire's opening reception.

 

 

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August 21 – Sept 18, 2010
Collection of personal items and Opening August 21, 7–10pm
Performance and Closing Reception September 18, 7–10pm
Claire Cronin
Disquiet Objects

 

Disquiet Objects brings Claire Cronin’s psychic songwriting to the visitors of Monte Vista by inviting the public to share their personal items as source material for her work.  Based on a belief that the objects we live with are alive with an invisible charge, Cronin began to experiment with Psychometry – the intuitive art of reading the energy held in things.

 

For each week of her residency at Monte Vista, the artist will select one of the borrowed objects and channel a song based on the impressions she gathers.  At the end of the residency, on September 18th, there will be a performance of the four finished songs and a closing reception, when all items will be returned to their owners.

 

Parallels between the creative process and psychic channeling have been explored by many artists.  Cronin’s exploration of Psychometry began while staying at a haunted artist residency, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, in North Carolina, where she wrote songs for the spirits residing in the space.  Cronin’s practice emphasizes channeling – rather than authoring – as a deliberate strategy to soften her mark as an individual and draw from a collective history.

 

Along with her songwriting residency at Monte Vista, Cronin will exhibit a series of portraits of deceased strangers in the gallery, painted from photographs found on internet memorial sites.  Each portrait is displayed with its “double” cut from black thrift store dresses, referencing the Victorian practice of covering mirrors with black cloth during times of mourning, so that the spirits of the departed won’t get trapped in the glass.  One mirror will be displayed alongside the paintings in this way, as part of an “energy installation” to contain energy that collects in the gallery.  Four quartz crystals will also be placed in the corners of the gallery, forming a “crystal matrix” that will protect and ritualize the space.

 

Claire Cronin is an artist and songwriter whose work blurs the boundaries between psychic and creative processes.  She recently composed a series of songs about the vibrations in the Hammer Museum as part of the Machine Project residency, and taught a class on “Art as a Magickal Practice” at Telic’s Public School.  Cronin practices her psychic skills in Asher Hartman’s experimental theatre group, Gawdafful, and in other small performances across Los Angeles.  Cronin was born in 1985 in Los Angeles, where she continues to live.  In her past life, she was an ascetic in a strict order of Catholic nuns.

 

 

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Monte Vista
5442 Monte Vista St
Los Angeles, CA 90042
www.montevistaprojects.com
open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm

 

 

Sun, 28 June 2009
posted by ao, 06/23/09  
francesco gagliardi - performances
con Francesco Gagliardi, Elena Russo Arman, Alessandra Novaga
associazione 15febbraio
Torino, Italy
Sunday, June 28, 2009
8:00pm - 10:00pm

 

more info: http://www.15febbraio.com/productions/francesco-gagliardi.html

 

a concert report from Francesco - pdf

 

works by G. Douglas Barrett, Kerstin Fuchs, Francesco Gagliardi, Adam Overton, Mark So, Amnon Wolman

 

programma

 

Mark So - Nothing is Very Simple
G. Douglas Barrett - A Few Silence
Mark So - Some Forgotten Day
Francesco Gagliardi - Film 4: East of Eden
Kerstin Fuchs - Viktoriapark Berlin-Kreuzberg August 2008
G. Douglas Barrett - A Few Voices (Polyphony I-III)
Kerstin Fuchs - Viktoriapark Berlin-Kreuzberg August 2008
Adam Overton - Duet (For Tashi Wada)
Francesco Gagliardi - Two Homes
Amnon Wolman - Imaginary Piece – February 1999
Francesco Gagliardi - Reading 4
Amnon Wolman - Imaginary Piece – April 18, 1999
...
Adam Overton - For Performer and Hidden Object

 

Il programma raccoglie una selezione di recenti (2006-2009) performance e composizioni di musica sperimentale centrate sull'esecuzione di compiti minimi – la lettura silenziosa, l'ascolto, rammemorazione, trascrizione e riproduzione di gesti e suoni. Nel loro insieme, e ciascuna a suo modo, queste composizioni spostano l'attenzione dello spettatore dall'esecuzione fisica di suoni e gesti codificati in partiture predefinite o generate nel corso dell'esecuzione, al sostrato cognitivo dell'esecuzione stessa: la "perfomance mentale" che sottende ogni situazione performativa di carattere fisico e sonoro. Queste composizioni, in altre parole, spostano il luogo della perfomance dall'esterno all'interno, invitando lo spettatore a riconoscere quello che vede e sente come una semplice traccia, un indice, un correlato percettibile della perfomance privata che si svolge nella mente dell'esecutore nel corso dell'esecuzione.
Tutti i lavori in programma sono prime esecuzioni italiane. Il programma comprende inoltre la prima esecuzione assoluta di A Few Voices (Polyphony I-III) di G. Douglas Barrett, Film 4: East of Eden e Two Homes di Francesco Gagliardi, Nothing is Very Simple e Some Forgotten Day di Mark So.

 

 

Wed,  1 April 2009
posted by ao, 04/05/09  performed by Nick Diamond and Yakima Fernandez
Wednesday 1 March 2009, 7:30pm, as part of the 2009 John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium (3/29-4/1) at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Keller Hall.

 

mp3

 

 

 

Fri, 24 October 2008
posted by ao, 10/27/08  duet for tashi wada was performed at the Upload .. Download .. Perform . net release party at the wulf. in Los Angeles.

 

view the program

 

performed by Christa Graf & Orin Hildestad | mp3

 

 

Tue, 17 June 2008
posted by ao, 09/29/08  presented as part of Possibility of Action: the Life of the Score, 17/06/2008 - 05/10/2008 at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), curated by Barbara Held and Pilar Subira